PENERAPAN PENDEKATAN CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING (CTL) DALAM UPAYA MENINGKATKAN PEMAHAMAN KONSEP MATEMATIKA SISWA

Abstract

This research is motivated by the large number of students who find it difficult to understand the concept of mathematics because generally mathematics is an abstract subject so that the teacher must strive for learning to be concrete by applying learning that can relate the concept to the real life of students. One of the efforts is to apply a contextual teaching and learning approach to present learning that is full of abstract concepts to have a close relationship with students' daily lives. This type of research is a classroom action research conducted in class IV / A SDN 003 Sungai Salak. The number of research subjects was 24 students. The instrument used to analyze students' conceptual understanding used a multiple choice concept comprehension test. The results showed that students' understanding of mathematical concepts in the first cycle was 68.61 with 17 students who completed or 70.83%. In cycle II students' understanding of mathematical concepts increased to 71.11 with classical completeness of 83.33% where as many as 20 students were able to achieve the specified completeness. The conclusion based on the results of this study is that the application of the contextual teaching and learning approach can improve the understanding of the mathematical concepts of grade IV / A students of SDN 003 Sungai Salak on the subject of circumference and area of simple flat shapes.